ICON 2020: 17th International Conference



on Natural Language Processing




December 18-21




Organized by



NLP Association, India



AI-NLP-ML Group, Dept. of CSE, IIT Patna


Welcome to ICON 2020!



Guidelines for Camera-ready Submission


1. Authors must follow the ACL Author Guidelines

2. Authors must download the ACL 2020 style sheets from ICON 2020 mainpage and uncomment line 26 (\aclfinalcopy) in the 'acl2020.tex' file.

3. The deadline for submission of both long and short papers is 7 December, 2020 (GMT -12).

4. The final submission site will be available at https://www.softconf.com/icon2020/papers/ from 1 December, 2020 to 7 December, 2020




List of Accepted Papers



Long Papers


Submission IDPaper Title

7

The WEAVE Corpus: Annotating Synthetic Chemical Procedures in Patents with Chemical Named Entities

10

Treatment of optional forms in Mathematical modelling of Pāṇini

13

Automatic Hadith Segmentation using PPM Compression

15

Using multiple ASR hypotheses to boost i18n NLU performance

18

English to Manipuri and Mizo Post-Editing Effort and its Impact on Low Resource Machine Translation

19

Learning to Interact: An Adaptive Interaction Framework for Knowledge Graph Embeddings

22

Solving Arithmetic Word Problems Using Transformer and Pre-processing of Problem Texts

25

Self Attended Stack-Pointer Networks for Learning Long Term Dependencies

33

Identifying Complaints from Product Reviews: A Case Study on Hindi

37

Generative Adversarial Networks for Annotated Data Augmentation in Data Sparse NLU

38

BertAA : BERT fine-tuning for Authorship Attribution

49

Improving Passage Re-Ranking with Word N-Gram Aware Coattention Encoder

56

Automated Arabic Essay Evaluation

60

Semantic Extractor-Paraphraser based Abstractive Summarization

63

Self-Supervised Claim Identification for Automated Fact Checking

73

Native-Language Identification with Attention

77

Does a Hybrid Neural Network based Feature Selection Model Improve Text Classification?

79

Event Argument Extraction using Causal Knowledge Structures

82

Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness

89

Acoustic Analysis of Native (L1) Bengali Speakers’ Phonological Realization of English Lexical Stress Contrast

103

On-Device detection of sentence completion for voice assistants with low-memory footprint

104

Polarization and its Life on Social Media: A Case Study on Sabarimala and Demonetisation

106

A Rule Based Lightweight Bengali Stemmer

109

End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition for Gujarati

111

Deep Neural Model for Manipuri Multiword Named Entity Recognition with Unsupervised Cluster Feature

122

Only text? only image? or both? Predicting sentiment of internet memes

127

Annotated Corpus of Tweets in English from Various Domains for Emotion Detection

132

Developing a Faroese PoS-tagging solution using Icelandic methods

133

Leveraging Multi-domain, Heterogeneous Data using Deep Multitask Learning for Hate Speech Detection



Short Papers


Submission IDPaper Title

8

Increasing accuracy of a semantic word labelling tool based on a small lexicon

16

A Grammatical Sketch of Asur: A North Munda language

21

Inducing Interpretability in Knowledge Graph Embeddings

24

Clickbait in Hindi News Media : A Preliminary Study

26

Creation of Corpus and Analysis in Code-Mixed Kannada-English Social Media Data for POS Tagging

43

TREE ADJOINING GRAMMAR BASED “LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT GENERATOR

44

Exploration of Cross-lingual Summarization for Kannada-EnglishLanguage Pair

45

Hater-O-Genius Aggression Classification using Capsule Networks

46

A New Approach to Claim Check-Worthiness Prediction and Claim Verification

54

Language Model Metrics and Procrustes Analysis for Improved Vector Transformation of NLP Embeddings

55

Cognitively Aided Zero-Shot Automatic Essay Grading

61

ThamizhiUDp: A Dependency Parser for Tamil

62

Constructing a Korean Named Entity Recognition Dataset for the Financial Domain using Active Learning

64

SUKHAN: Corpus of Hindi Shayaris annotated with Sentiment Polarity Information

67

Improving Neural Machine Translation for Sanskrit-English

70

Sentimental Poetry Generation

78

Efforts Towards Developing a Tamang Nepali Machine Translation System

80

Claim extraction from text using transfer learning.

81

Assamese Word Sense Disambiguation using Genetic Algorithm

84

A Multi-modal Personality Prediction System

85

D-Coref: A Fast and Lightweight Coreference Resolution Model using DistilBERT

86

Semantic Slot Prediction on low corpus data using finite user defined list

87

Leveraging Latent Representations of Speech for Indian Language Identification

91

Towards Performance Improvement in Indian Sign Language Recognition

92

Question and Answer pair generation for Telugu short stories

93

Semi-Supervised Multi-Label Classification of MBTI Personalities of Twitter Users Using Graph Convolution Network

97

Detection of Similar Languages and Dialects Using Deep Supervised Autoencoder

98

Weak Supervision using Linguistic Knowledge for Information Extraction

101

Leveraging Alignment and Phonology for low-resource Indic to English Neural Machine Transliteration

102

STHAL: Location-mention Identification in Tweets of Indian-context

118

ScAA: A Dataset for Automated Short Answer Grading of Children’s free-text Answers in Hindi and Marathi

119

Exploring Pair-Wise NMT for Indian Languages

123

Towards Bengali Word Embedding: Corpus Creation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluations

128

PhraseOut: A Code Mixed Data Augmentation Method for MultilingualNeural Machine Tranlsation

131

CLPLM: Character Level Pretrained Language Model for ExtractingSupport Phrases for Sentiment Labels



Doctoral Consortium Papers


68

Parsing Indian English News Headlines

69

WORD SENSE DISAMBIUATION FOR KASHMIRI LANGUAGE USING SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING

72

WEKA in Forensic Authorship Analysis: A corpus-based approach of Saudi Authors